“Brothers, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God, in Christ Jesus.” -Phil 3:13,14 The last day of 2024. A new …
Tag Archives: Beginning
creativity
When I was little…I loved to create things. I loved to sing out loud at the top of my lungs. I painted pictures with abandon. I made up stories; yarns a mile long. I made mud pies with fancy flower toppings. I dreamed and imagined and got lost in the creative. I played house; made …
The Craft
I was about eight years old. Expressing myself in poetry and frustrated with my little brothers, I wrote a poem about boys. I don’t remember the words, but the gist of it was a rhyming song about their rambunctious, annoying and pestering attributes. I loved them but hated them and had no problem saying so …
Stretching
The beginning has come in fits and starts. Years and years and years of journals and papers and letters and songs. Studying my toes and staring at trees and clouds, gallivanting across the earth; tending to babies, following a husband, working long hours, staying up late sewing Easter dresses and arranging spring baskets and chocolate …